Hottt List 2007 Issue #34

Meet the winners of our 5th annual readers' poll

By Venus Zine Staff
Published: December 1st, 2007 | 2:07pm

After several thousand of you logged on to venuszine.com to vote for your favorite albums, films, TV shows, and DIY companies of 2007, you confirmed what we’ve known all along: you have good taste. In case you’re wondering why some of your favorite end-of-2007 releases didn’t make the list, it’s likely because we asked voters to nominate works that were released between October 15, 2006 and October 15, 2007. You can always nominate post–October 15, 2007, releases next year.

Best Female Artist
1. Amy Winehouse
2. Feist
3. Lily Allen
4. PJ Harvey
5. M.I.A.

Best Male Solo Artist
1. Elliott Smith
2. Andrew Bird
3. Beirut
4. Jens Lekman
5. Kanye West

Best Rock Album
1. The White Stripes, Icky Thump
2. Feist, The Reminder
3. Peter Bjorn and John, Writer’s Block
4. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
5. Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Best Record Label
1. Purple Feather
2. Kill Rock Stars
3. Sub Pop
4. Matador
5. Arts & Crafts

Best Band
1. The Donnas
2. The White Stripes
3. Arcade Fire
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Rilo Kiley

Best Dance or Electronic Album
1. M.I.A., Kala
2. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
3. The Blow, Paper Television
4. Justice, Cross
5. Dan Deacon, Spiderman of the Rings

Best Hip-Hop or Rap Album
1. Common, Finding Forever
2. Kanye West, Graduation
3. Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury
4. Brother Reade, Rap Music
5. Talib Kweli, Eardrum

Best Book
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
2. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
3. How Sassy Changed My Life by Marisa Meltzer and Kara Jesella
4. Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story by Laurie Lindeen
5. Lucky by Gabrielle Bell

Best Actress
1. Kate Winslet
2. Drew Barrymore
3. Rosario Dawson
4. Zooey Daschenel
5. Zoe Bell

Best Actor
1. Christian Bale
2. Clive Owen
3. Daniel Craig
4. Kurt Russell
5. Simon Pegg

Best Film
1. Stranger Than Fiction
2. Children of Men
3. Knocked Up
4. Hot Fuzz
5. Grindhouse

Best TV Show
1. The Office
2. Project Runway
3. Weeds
4. Heroes
5. Ugly Betty

Best Activist Group
1. Rock Camp For Girls (girlsrockcamp.org)
2. Amnesty International (amnesty.org)
3. PETA (peta.org)
4. AIDS Life Cycle (aidslifecycle.org)
5. HPV Awareness (tell-someone.com)

Best DIY Business
1. The Black Apple (theblackapple.etsy.com)
2. Boy Girl Party (boygirlparty.com)
3. Renegade Craft Fair and Renegade Handmade (renegadecraft.com)
4. Wee Wonderfuls (weewonderfuls.typepad.com)
5. Sublime Stitching (sublimestitching.com)

Best Fashion Designer
1. Marc Jacobs
2. Mooka Kinney
3. Samantha Pleet
4. Phillip Lim
5. Rodarte